Never, ever give up | Diana Nyad

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It's the fifth time I stand on this shore,

Peti put je kako stojim na ovoj obali,

the Cuban shore,

kubanskoj obali,

looking out at that distant horizon,

gledajući u taj udaljeni horizont,

believing, again,

verujući, opet,

that I'm going to make it all the way

da ću uspeti

skroz preko te ogromne,

across that vast, dangerous wilderness of an ocean.

opasne divljine od okeana.

Not only have I tried four times,

Ne samo da sam ja probala četiri puta,

but the greatest swimmers in the world have been trying since 1950,

nego su najbolji plivači sveta

pokušavali od 1950,

and it's still never been done.

i još uvek niko nije uspeo.

The team is proud of our four attempts.

Moj tim je ponosan na naša 4 pokušaja.

It's an expedition of some 30 people.

To je grupa od oko 30 ljudi.

Bonnie is my best friend and head handler,

Boni je moja najbolja prijateljica i glavni rukovodilac

who somehow summons will,

koja nekako priziva volju,

tu poslednju kap volje iz mene, baš kad pomislim da je nestala,

that last drop of will within me, when I think it's gone,

after many, many hours and days out there.

posle mnogo, mnogo sati i dana tamo na moru.

The shark experts are the best in the world --

Stručnjaci za ajkule su najbolji na svetu -

large predators below.

velike grabljivice iz dubine.

The box jellyfish, the deadliest venom in all of the ocean,

Kockasta meduza sa najsmrtonosnijim otrovom

u celom okeanu, je u ovim vodama,

is in these waters,

a ja sam zamalo umrla od njega

and I have come close to dying from them on a previous attempt.

u jednom od prethodnih pokušaja.

Uslovi, sami po sebi,

The conditions themselves,

besides the sheer distance of over 100 miles in the open ocean --

pored same daljine od preko 160 km

otvorenog okeana -

the currents and whirling eddies and the Gulf Stream itself,

morskih struja i vrtloga

i same golfske struje,

the most unpredictable of all of the planet Earth.

najprevrtljivije na planeti Zemlji.

And by the way -- it's amusing to me

I uzgred, zabavno je čuti

that journalists and people, before these attempts, often ask me,

novinare i ljude pre tih pokušaja

kako pitaju:

"Well, are you going to go with any boats or any people or anything?"

"Pa, da li ideš u pratnji nekih čamaca

ili ljudi ili ičega?"

(Laughter)

And I'm thinking, what are they imagining?

A ja mislim: "Šta to oni zamišljaju?"

That I'll just sort of do some celestial navigation --

Da ću da se upravljam prema zvezdama,

(Laughter)

And carry a bowie knife in my mouth,

i da nosim bouvi nož u ustima,

da ću loviti ribu, derati je i živu jesti usput,

and I'll hunt fish and skin them alive and eat them,

and maybe drag a desalinization plant behind me for fresh water.

i vući postrojenje za desalinizaciju

iza sebe za svežu vodu.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Yes, I have a team.

Da, imam tim. (Smeh)

(Laughter)

I tim je ekspertski, i tim je hrabar

And the team is expert,

and the team is courageous,

and brimming with innovation and scientific discovery,

i prepun inovacija

i naučnih otkrića,

as is true of any major expedition on the planet.

kao i svaka velika ekspedicija na planeti.

I da, bili smo na putešestviju.

And we've been on a journey.

And the debate has raged, hasn't it,

I da, rasprava se vodi, zar ne,

since the Greeks,

još od starih Grka,

of isn't it what it's all about?

o čemu se tu stvarno radi?

Isn't life about the journey, not really the destination?

Nije li svrha života u putovanju,

a ne u destinaciji?

And here we've been on this journey,

I mi smo bili na ovom putovanju,

i iskreno, bilo je uzbuđujuće.

and the truth is, it's been thrilling.

We haven't reached that other shore,

Nismo dostigli tu drugu obalu,

and still, our sense of pride and commitment,

pa ipak, osećaj ponosa i posvećenosti

unwavering commitment.

nepokolebljive posvećenosti.

When I turned 60, the dream was still alive

Kada sam napunila 60, san je još bio živ

from having tried this in my 20s -- dreamed it and imagined it.

od mog pokušaja u 20-im

i sanjanja i zamišljanja.

Najslavniji komad vode

The most famous body of water on the Earth today, I imagine,

na Zemlji danas, od Kube do Floride.

Cuba to Florida.

And it was deep. It was deep in my soul.

Bio je duboko, duboko u mojoj duši.

Kada sam napunila 60,

When I turned 60,

it wasn't so much about the athletic accomplishment,

nije mi bilo bitno atletsko postignuće,

nije bio ego-trip "Ja želim da budem prva."

it wasn't the ego of "I want to be the first."

That's always there and it's undeniable.

To je, neosporno, uvek bilo prisutno.

Bilo je nešto dublje: "Koliko života mi je ostalo?"

But it was deeper.

It was "how much life is there left?"

Let's face it -- we're all on a one-way street, aren't we?

Budimo iskreni, svi smo mi u jednosmernoj ulici, zar ne?

I šta nam je činiti?

And what are we going to do?

What are we going to do as we go forward, to have no regrets looking back?

Šta nam je činiti dok idemo napred

da ne bismo sa žaljenjem gledali za sobom?

Tokom svih godina treniranja,

And all this past year in training,

I had that Teddy Roosevelt quote

imala sam citat Tedija Ruzvelta

to paraphrase it, floating around in my brain.

parafraziran, muvao mi se u glavi,

It says, "You go ahead.

i koji kaže:

You go ahead and sit back in your comfortable chair

"Idi, idi i zavali se u svoju fotelju

and you be the critic, you be the observer,

i budi kritičar, budi posmatrač,

while the brave one gets in the ring and engages

dok hrabri ulaze u ring i u sukob

and gets bloody and gets dirty and fails over and over and over again,

i okrvavljeni i prljavi padaju

iznova i iznova i iznova,

but yet isn't afraid and isn't timid and lives life in a bold way."

ali nisu sramežljivi i nisu uplašeni,

već žive život hrabro."

And so of course I want to make it across.

I tako, naravno, ja želim preko.

It is the goal, and I should be so shallow to say that this year,

To je cilj, i biću toliko plitka da kažem

da ove godine, cilj je bio čak slađi

the destination was even sweeter than the journey.

nego putovanje.

(Laughter)

(Smeh) (Aplauz)

(Applause)

But the journey itself was worthwhile taking.

Ali i put sam po sebi je vredan preduzimanja.

And at this point, by this summer,

Do ovog trena, do ovog leta,

everybody -- scientists, sports scientists,

svi - naučnici, sportski naučnici,

eksperti u izdržljivosti, neurolozi,

endurance experts, neurologists,

my own team, Bonnie --

moj tim, Boni -

said it's impossible.

svi su rekli da je nemoguće.

It just simply can't be done, and Bonnie said to me,

Neizvodljivo je, a Boni mi reče:

"Ako ćeš ipak da kreneš na taj put,

"But if you're going to take the journey,

biću s tobom od početka do kraja,

I'm going to see you through to the end of it,

so I'll be there."

svaki korak."

And now we're there.

I sada smo tu.

As we're looking out, kind of a surreal moment

Pomalo je nadrealan trenutak

pre prvog zamaha,

before the first stroke,

standing on the rocks at Marina Hemingway,

stojim na stenju Hemingvej marine,

the Cuban flag is flying above,

kubanska zastava se vijori iznad nas,

all my team is out in their boats, hands up in the air,

ceo moj tim je u svojim čamcima,

sa rukama u vazduhu, "Ovde smo, ovde smo za tebe",

"We're here!

We're here for you!"

Boni i ja se pogledamo i kažemo jedna drugoj,

Bonnie and I look at each other and say,

ove godine, mantra je -

this year, the mantra is -- and I've been using it in training --

a stalno sam je koristila na treningu -

Find a way.

nađi način.

You have a dream

Imaš san

and you have obstacles in front of you, as we all do.

i imaš prepreke pred sobom, kao i svi.

None of us ever get through this life

Niko od nas ne prođe kroz život

without heartache,

bez tuge,

bez nemira,

without turmoil,

and if you believe and you have faith

i ako veruješ, ako imaš vere

i ako možeš da se podigneš kad budeš nokautiran

and you can get knocked down and get back up again

and you believe in perseverance

i ako veruješ u istrajnost

as a great human quality,

kao veliki ljudski kvalitet,

naći ćeš svoj način, Boni me je zgrabila za ramena,

you find your way.

And Bonnie grabbed my shoulders,

i rekla: "Hajde da nađemo naš put do Floride."

and she said, "Let's find our way to Florida."

And we started, and for the next 53 hours,

I pošli smo; sledeća 53 sata,

it was an intense, unforgettable life experience.

su bila napeto i nezaboravno životno iskustvo.

The highs were high, the awe --

Usponi su bili visoki, strahopoštovanje,

I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you,

nisam religiozna, ali da vam kažem,

biti u plavetnilu golfske struje

to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream

as if, as you're breathing,

kao da, dok dišeš,

you're looking down miles and miles and miles,

gledaš dole kilometrima i kilometrima,

to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on --

kad osetiš veličanstvenost ove planete

na kojoj živimo,

it's awe-inspiring.

izaziva strahopoštovanje.

I have a playlist of about 85 songs,

Imam plejlistu od 85 pesama,

and especially in the middle of the night ...

i posebno usred noći,

i te noći, pošto nije bilo svetla -

That night, because we use no lights -- lights attract jellyfish,

svetla privlače meduze, ajkule,

lights attract sharks,

privlače ribe koje privlače ajkule,

lights attract baitfish that attract sharks,

so we go in the pitch black of the night.

i zato mi idemo po mrklom mraku.

You've never seen black this black.

Nikada niste videli ovako crn mrak.

You can't see the front of your hand,

Ne vidiš svoju ruku ispred sebe,

and the people on the boat, Bonnie and my team on the boat --

ni ljude na brodu,

Boni i moj tim na brodu,

they just hear the slapping of the arms,

samo čuju bućkanje mojih ruku,

and they know where I am,

i tako znaju gde sam,

because there's no visual at all.

jer nikakav vizuelni kontakt ne postoji.

And I'm out there kind of tripping out on my little playlist.

I tako ja bućkam po vodi tripujući

uz moju malu plejlistu.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I've got tight rubber caps, I don't hear a thing.

Imam tesnu gumenu kapu na glavi,

tako da ništa ne čujem.

I've got goggles and I'm turning my head 50 times a minute,

Imam zaštitne naočare i vrtim glavom 50 puta u minuti,

and I'm singing ...

i pevušim.

(Singing) Imagine there's no heaven

♪ Zamisli da nema raja ♪

(Laughter)

doo doo doo doo doo

lala lala la

It's easy if you try

♪ Lako je, ako pokušaš ♪

doo doo doo doo doo

lala lala la.

And I can sing that song a thousand times in a row.

Mogu da otpevam tu pesmu hiljadu puta uzastopce.

(Smeh)

(Laughter)

Now there's a talent unto itself.

Samo po sebi to je talenat.

(Laughter)

(Smeh) (Aplauz)

(Applause)

And each time I get done with,

I svaki put kad završim sa

(Singing) Oh, you may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one

♪ Možeš reći da sam sanjar, ali nisam jedini ♪

222.

dvesta dvadeset dva.

(Singing) Imagine there's no heaven

♪ Zamisli da nema raja ♪

(Laughter)

I kad završim sa hiljadu

And when I get through the end

of a thousand of John Lennon's "Imagine,"

Lenonovih "Imagine"-a,

I have swum nine hours and 45 minutes ...

plivala sam devet sati i 45 minuta,

exactly.

u sekund.

(Laughter)

And then there are the crises.

A tu su i krize. Naravno da su tu.

Of course there are.

And the vomiting starts, the seawater -- you're not well.

I povraćanje počne,

morska voda, nisi dobro,

You're wearing a jellyfish mask for the ultimate protection.

nosiš masku protiv meduza, kao ultimativnu zaštitu.

It's difficult to swim in.

Teško je plivati u njoj.

It's causing abrasions on the inside of the mouth,

Ona izaziva ogrebotine u unutrašnjosti tvojih usta,

ali bar ti pipci ništa ne mogu.

but the tentacles can't get you.

And the hypothermia sets in.

I hipotermija počinje.

The water's 85 degrees, and yet you're losing weight

Voda je 29°C, a ipak gubiš težinu

and using calories.

i trošiš kalorije, i kako dođeš

And as you come over toward the side of the boat --

blizu broda koji inače ne smeš da dotakneš

not allowed to touch it, not allowed to get out,

ni da izađeš iz vode,

but Bonnie and her team hand me nutrition

ali Boni i njen tim mi dodaju prehranu

i pitaju me kako mi ide, da li sam dobro,

and ask me how I'm doing, am I all right.

I am seeing the Taj Mahal --

samo sam se zagledala u Tadž Mahal tu pored.

(Laughter)

Over here.

I'm in a very different state --

Ja sam u vrlo čudnom stanju,

(Laughter)

And I'm thinking, "Wow!

i razmišljam kako nikad nisam očekivala

I never thought I'd be running into the Taj Mahal out here.

da ću naleteti na Tadž Mahal ovde.

It's gorgeous!

Predivan je.

I mean, how long did it take them to build that?

Koliko li im je trebalo da ga naprave?

It's just ...

Tako je... uuuu! (Smeh)

So, uh -- wooo -- you know?

(Laughter)

We kind of have a cardinal rule

Imali smo neko osnovno pravilo

that I'm never told how far it is, because we don't know how far it is.

da mi nikad ne kažu koliko smo u stvari odmakli

zato što ne znamo koliko još ima.

What's going to happen to you between this point and that point?

Šta će mi se desiti između ove i one etape?

Kakvo će biti vreme i morske struje

What's going to happen to the weather and the currents

i šta će biti ako me nedajbože opeče meduza

and, God forbid, you're stung,

when you don't think you could be stung in all this armor.

dok mislim da mi ništa ne može u ovom oklopu,

Boni je odlučila

Bonnie made a decision coming into that third morning

na početku tog trećeg jutra

that I was suffering,

da sam se napatila

and I was hanging on by a thread.

i da sam na izmaku i rekla je:

And she said, "Come here,"

and I came close to the boat, and she said,

"Dođi ovamo,"

prišla sam brodu, a ona je rekla:

"Look, look out there."

"Pogledaj tamo,"

And I saw light,

videla sam svetlo, jer je dan lakši od noći

because the day is easier than the night,

and I thought we were coming into day.

i pomislila da sviće,

videla sam zrak belog svetla

I saw a stream of white light along the horizon,

preko horizonta,

and I said, "It's going to be morning soon."

i rekla sam: "Uskoro će jutro."

And she said, "No, those are the lights of Key West."

A ona je rekla: "Ne, to su svetla Ki Vesta."

It was 15 more hours,

Trebalo je još 15 časova,

which for most swimmers would be a long time.

što je za većinu plivača mnogo vremena.

(Laughter)

(Smeh) (Aplauz)

(Applause)

You have no idea how many 15-hour training swims I had done.

Nemate pojma koliko puta sam provela po 15 sati u vodi na treningu.

So here we go, and I somehow, without a decision,

I tako, eto nas, nekako nesvesno

went into no counting of strokes

sam prestala da brojim zamahe

and no singing

prestala da pevam, i citiram Stivena Hokinga

and no quoting Stephen Hawking on the parameters of the universe.

i parametre univerzuma,

I just went into thinking about this dream, and why and how.

samo sam mislila o svom snu,

i zašto i kako.

I kako sam rekla, kad sam napunila 60,

As I said, when I turned 60,

it wasn't about that concrete "Can you do it?"

nije bilo pitanje: "Mogu li ja to?"

That's the everyday machinations.

To sebe svakodnevno pitamo.

That's the discipline, and it's the preparation,

To je disciplina, i priprema,

i postoji ponos u tome.

and there's a pride in that.

But I decided to think, as I went along,

Odlučila sam da razmišljam, kako sam išla,

about -- you know, the phrase usually is, "reaching for the stars."

a fraza je obično "posegni za zvezdama",

And in my case, it's reaching for the horizon.

ili u mom slučaju "posegni za horizontom".

And when you reach for the horizon,

A kada posegneš za horizontom,

as I've proven, you may not get there.

kako sam dokazala, možda nećeš stići,

But what a tremendous build of character and spirit

ali postižeš ogromno

izgrađivanje karaktera i duha.

that you lay down;

what a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.

Kakve jake temelje polažeš

kad posegneš za horizontom.

And now, the shore is coming.

I sada se obala približava,

And there's just a little part of me that's sad.

a mali deo mene je tužan.

The epic journey is going to be over.

Ovo epsko putovanje će da se završi.

So many people come up to me now and say,

Mnogi ljudi nam priđu i kažu:

"What's next?"

"Šta je sledeće? Ovo smo obožavali!

(Laughter)

"We love that!"

(Laughter)

Onaj mali trejser na kompjuteru?

"That little tracker on the computer?

When are you going to do the next one?

Kada ćeš na sledeći poduhvat? Jedva čekamo da pratimo sledeći!"

We can't wait to follow the next one."

Pa, oni su bili tamo samo 53 sata,

Well, they were just there for 53 hours,

and I was there for years.

ja sam tamo bila godinama.

And so there won't be another epic journey in the ocean.

I tako, neće biti još jednog epskog putovanja po okeanu.

But the point is, and the point was,

Ali poenta je, i uvek je bila,

that every day of our lives is epic.

da je svaki dan našeg života epski,

And I'll tell you, when I walked up onto that beach,

i kažem vam, kad sam izašla na tu plažu

staggered up onto that beach ...

isteturala se,

I had so many times, in a very puffed-up ego way,

a toliko sam puta

sa napumpanim egom uvežbavala

rehearsed what I would say ...

šta ću reći na toj plaži.

(Laughter)

on the beach.

Kad je Boni pomislila

When Bonnie thought the back of my throat was swelling up,

da mi je grlo nateklo,

she brought the medical team over to our boat

dovela je medicinski tim na naš brod

to say, "She's really beginning to have trouble breathing;

da im kaže

da imam problema sa disanjem.

another 12, 24 hours in the saltwater ..." --

Još pola dana-dan u slanoj vodi

the whole thing -- I just thought, in my hallucinatory moment,

i učinilo mi se da

u trenu haluciniranja čujem reč "traheotomija".

that I heard the word "tracheotomy."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Bonnie said to the doctor, "I'm not worried about her not breathing.

A Boni reče doktoru:

"Ne brinem se za njeno disanje.

Ali ako ne bude mogla da govori kad izađe

If she can't talk when she gets to the shore,

she's going to be pissed off."

biće nadrndana."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

But the truth is, all those orations that I had practiced,

Ali istina je, sve te besede

koje sam vežbala kao motivaciju

just to get myself through some training swims as motivation --

da bih izdržala treninge

it wasn't like that.

nisu mi pomogle.

It was a very real moment,

Doživela sam pravi trenutak,

with that crowd, with my team.

sa publikom, sa mojim timom.

We did it. I didn't do it. We did it.

Uspeli smo. Ne ja, mi smo uspeli.

And we'll never forget it. It'll always be part of us.

I nikada to nećemo zaboraviti. Uvek će biti deo nas.

The three things I did sort of blurt out when we got there, was first:

Tri stvari sam onako izbrbljala kad smo stigli.

Prvo: "Nikad, nikad ne odustaj."

Never, ever give up.

I live it.

Ja to živim. Kako je Sokrat rekao?

What's the phrase from today from Socrates?

Audience: To be is to do.

Biti znači činiti.

Diana Nyad: To be is to do.

So I don't stand up and say, "Don't ever give up."

Meni to nije puka fraza, ne odustaj.

I didn't give up.

Ja nisam odustala, iza mojih reči stoje dela.

There was action behind these words.

The second is:

Drugo: "Nikad nisi suviše star

You can chase your dreams at any age; you're never too old.

da slediš svoje snove."

Sixty-four; a thing no one, at any age, any gender, could ever do

Sa 64 godine, uradila sam nešto

što niko nikad nije uspeo,

has done it.

i potpuno sam sigurna

And there's no doubt in my mind

da sam danas u zenitu svog života.

that I am at the prime of my life today.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

Yeah.

Tako je.

(Applause)

Thank you.

Hvala.

I treće što sam rekla na toj plaži je:

And the third thing I said on that beach was,

it looks like the most solitary endeavor in the world,

"Izgledalo je kao najsamotniji napor na svetu

and in many ways, of course, it is.

i na mnogo načina, i jeste,

a s druge, važnije strane

And in other ways, and the most important ways,

it's a team.

to je timski napor, i ako mislite da sam ja faca,

And if you think I'm a badass, you want to meet Bonnie.

trebalo bi da upoznate Boni."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Bonnie, where are you?

Boni, gde si?

Where are you?

Gde si?

There's Bonnie Stoll.

Ono je Boni Stol. (Aplauz)

(Applause)

Moj drugar.

My buddy.

(Applause)

The Henry David Thoreau quote goes,

Da citiram Henrija Dejvida Toroa:

"When you achieve your dreams, it's not so much what you get

"Kada postigneš svoje snove, nije bitno šta dobiješ time,

koliko šta postaneš tokom procesa."

as who you have become in achieving them."

And yeah, I stand before you now.

I tako, stojim tu pred vama,

In the three months since that swim ended,

tri meseca posle plivanja,

I've sat down with Oprah,

bila sam kod Opre,

and I've been in President Obama's Oval Office;

bila sam u Obaminoj Ovalnoj sobi.

I've been invited to speak in front of esteemed groups

Pozvana sam da govorim pred uvaženim grupama poput vas.

such as yourselves;

Potpisala sam predivan ugovor za knjigu

I've signed a wonderful major book contract.

All of that's great, and I don't denigrate it.

i sve je to super, neću da omalovažavam.

I'm proud of it all, but the truth is,

Na sve to sam ponosna, ali istina je,

hodam sad ponosna zato što sam hrabra,

I'm walking around tall

because I am that bold, fearless person, and I will be, every day,

neustrašiva osoba, i uvek ću biti,

until it's time for these days to be done.

dok ne dođe vreme da se ti dani okončaju.

Thank you very much and enjoy the conference.

Mnogo vam hvala i uživajte u konferenciji.

Thank you. Thank you!

Hvala vam. Hvala. (Aplauz)

(Applause)

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

Pronađite način! (Aplauz)

Find a way!

(Applause)